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music discovery
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RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
4 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 12 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.32.
Idea: 4 for, 8 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good concept for artist discovery outside algorithms.
From 2 comments
I'm a lifelong touring musician. This has all of the great things that BIRP.FM and others provided for so long, without the foolish gatekeeping that has plagued the music…
havefunbesafe on HNAmazing, history does repeat itself. One of the companies in my batch (S07) was iJigg (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ijigg), which had the 2007's version of this…
hailpixel on HN
Objections
Catalogue too broad without genre filters.
From 2 comments
I'm someone who's been in the music industry for many, many years. This reminds me a bit of a platform called mixtape (I think) that was in this vein. Here are a few thoughts and…
superultra on HNWhile a nice idea, there's just so much more music made than SaaS products and this will eventually need to turn into a curated list ala spotify/apple music to keep users from…
staplers on HN
Requiring Spotify presence excludes niche artists.
From 2 comments
As a small artist living in quite a tiny niche - didgeridoo music - I have to say that the requirement for having your music on spotify is a no-go. Artists like myself don't…
ephaeton on HNI'm not trying to tell you how to market your music, you do you, but with services like Tune Core, Distro Kid, etc that allow you to submit your music to every single music…
bploetz on HN
Popularity voting is easy to game.
From 1 comment
First problem is that such systems are typically easy to game with a script to trigger /listen from multiple IPs etc. I once demonstrated this when a telecoms giant ran a very…
webprofusion on HN
Requests
Add sub-genre filtering.
From 2 comments
Would be great if you could narrow down to sub-genres. Music is not like apps where you can just post a general list in the home page. Can't expect someone that likes hip hop to…
pacomerh on HNOne bit of feedback after submitting a track: The list of genres to select from is too course-grained IMHO. There's a gazillion sub-genres of electronic dance music for example,…
bploetz on HN
Support other music platforms besides Spotify.
From 2 comments
As a small artist living in quite a tiny niche - didgeridoo music - I have to say that the requirement for having your music on spotify is a no-go. Artists like myself don't…
ephaeton on HNI'm not trying to tell you how to market your music, you do you, but with services like Tune Core, Distro Kid, etc that allow you to submit your music to every single music…
bploetz on HN
Questions
How many regular users does it have?
From 1 comment
This is awesome! How many regular users would you say you get?
ewhicher on HN
Alternatives named
Hype Machine
From 2 comments
There is also https://hypem.com/, which focuses on music posted by blogs but is otherwise fairly similar. It helped me discover a lot of cool music back in the day :) Nowadays…
twiss on HNThis reminds of me https://hypem.com, similar concept, except music is aggregated by popular online blogs.
7ero on HN
Submit Hub
From 1 comment
One bit of feedback after submitting a track: The list of genres to select from is too course-grained IMHO. There's a gazillion sub-genres of electronic dance music for example,…
bploetz on HN
Bandcamp
From 1 comment
Bandcamp has a "if you like this, you may also like" feature which seems to be unbiased by listening history and allows unheard-of artists to crop up. I've found a few good recs…
n4r9 on HN